This survey may solve the mystery as to what voters had in mind during the November 2004 presidential election when, in an exit poll, 22 percent cited "moral values " as their greatest concern. In the recent survey, 18 percent again choose "moral values " as their prime concern, but the largest proportion (36 percent) define them in terms of personal values, such as honesty and responsibility. Only 10 percent emphasize social issues like abortion.
Instead of concerning ourselves with the abortion views of the next nominee, we should be laying out, in clear, plain language, his or her dangerous views on economic issues. We need to point out the consequences of giving Big Business more power. People are sick of both government and big business. They 're ready to see corporatism for the fascism it is.
To put it simply, the people who 've taken over our government are crooks and murderers and liars, and what 's more, everybody knows it. The last part is what we need to concentrate on --everybody knowing it. Common contempt and general disapproval will give us more power than anything else. It could even be that conventional wisdom and the state media will get so far out of sync that people will actually begin to understand the extent to which they 've been brainwashed. Self-serving lies might be a wee bit easier to spot, including this insulting whopper from the venerable editorial page of The Wall Street Journal: "the indictment amounts to an allegation that one official lied about what he knew about an underlying 'crime ' that wasn 't committed. . . . "
John Lennon was right. The revolution isn 't being televised. It hasn 't been fit to print. (See Juan Cole and Jon Maxson.)
The revolution is happening here, now. Unfortunately, it 's coming from the right, not the left.
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